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Founded in 2015, the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University advances the study of contemporary China and provides substantive analysis from social science perspectives of the dramatic sociological shifts taking place in China today.

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Upcoming Events

Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
Mon, Oct 7, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
In a play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown, this talk addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. Beneath the political drama, "Deadly Decision in Beijing" explores the authoritarian regime's perpetual crisis of leadership transition and its impact on popular…
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71
Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State
Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
"Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics" offers a new account of economic policy making in China over the past four decades that reveals how bureaucrats have spurred large-scale transformations from within. Yingyao Wang demonstrates how competition among bureaucrats motivated by careerism has led to the emergence of new policy approaches…
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71
The War for Chinese Talent in America
Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
To overcome their “brain drain,” some developing countries employ the “Diaspora Option,” encouraging their overseas nationals to use the knowledge they gained abroad to help their motherland. Since the mid-1990s, China’s party/state has vigorously used an extensive array of programs and incentives to persuade China-born researchers and…
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71
Small Yard, High Fence? The Impact of US-China Tensions on the Reallocation of International Students in US Higher Education
Mon, Nov 18, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
One of the most critical recent developments in the global economy is how U.S.-China tensions are reshaping cross-border economic integration. To date, however, our understanding of its impact has been mainly limited to international trade and finance, as opposed to migration. To fill this gap, we explore the effect of recent tensions on…
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71
Discourse Power: How China Gains Global Support for Its Vision of Cyber Order
Mon, Dec 2, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
How does China influence international order and when are China’s efforts successful? China develops a new strategy, international discourse power, focused on the use of narratives. Using international discourse power, China seeks to gain global influence by crafting compelling messages. Through interviews with China’s foreign policy experts, I…
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71